Reading Time: 3 minutes Why has the premier shied away from delivering tax relief?
Tag: New Brunswick politics
New Brunswick government finances unsustainable
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the government doesn’t restore provincial finances, future generations will pay the price through debt interest payments
We don’t need elections now, we need leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elections will turn us away from dealing with the real issues. And we don’t seem to have the means to conduct safe voting
Fracking can lift the Maritimes out of economic doldrums
Reading Time: 3 minutes Maritime provinces and Quebec should be developing their resources now as natural gas prices recover
The restaurant industry can help save the economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes But the federal government and most provinces have failed to help the hospitality sector. Only New Brunswick is making a difference
COVID crisis opportunity for trade reform in Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eliminating trade barriers can help accelerate the economic recovery
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
N.B. on its way to building a more inclusive democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Electoral reform recommendations seek to build a bigger democratic tent and populate it with under-represented New Brunswickers
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages
Beer-barrel economics: what goes down stimulates the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A cut in beer prices in New Brunswick led to an increase in beer sales to Nova Scotia and Quebec residents